Discussion of phenomenon of shape-differentiation as it appears in the numerical classifiers, classificatory verbs, and body-part suffixes of the Tarascan language. (RS)

Research conducted under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics and partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)

The corpus of the study is presented and discussed, problems of Spanish suffix analysis are presented, and then noun usage--suffixed versus unsuffixed nouns, the gender marker in the corpus, the most frequently used suffixes, and general characteristics and trends of usage-are discussed. (SCC)